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Old 03-25-2010, 11:22 AM   #1561
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I like it dreary and dark. I'm fine with the sun behind the clouds, where it belongs.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 12:53 PM   #1562
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If you're "over there" and use the spell checker, does it tell you that you've spelled odor wrong?

...

Yeah, it does. Anything ending in our or ise, as we do here, gets indicated by the spellchecker.
Funny, mine does the opposite. "color" gets underlined, whereas "colour" doesn't. Same thing with "realize" vs. "realise".
 
Old 03-25-2010, 12:58 PM   #1563
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Mmm, that's strange.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 01:00 PM   #1564
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Funny, mine does the opposite. "color" gets underlined, whereas "colour" doesn't. Same thing with "realize" vs. "realise".
It did that for me, too.

But spell checking stopped working again when I quit using a DE a long time ago.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 02:26 PM   #1565
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Funny, mine does the opposite. "color" gets underlined, whereas "colour" doesn't. Same thing with "realize" vs. "realise".
Does that mean the maker of your distro actually speaks
English, not American, and chose a proper dictionary?

Awesome.


Cheers,
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/me ducks & covers
 
Old 03-25-2010, 04:18 PM   #1566
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Does that mean the maker of your distro actually speaks
English, not American, and chose a proper dictionary?

Awesome.


Cheers,
Tink

/me ducks & covers
Perhaps you may not realize that the United States is the #1 English speaking country in the world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

Disrespectful & rude.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 04:39 PM   #1567
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Perhaps you may not realize that the United States is the #1 English speaking country in the world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
We all know better since George Mikes' beautiful work
"How to scrape skies"

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Disrespectful & rude.
Americans? Frequently ;}



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Old 03-25-2010, 04:51 PM   #1568
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We all know better since George Mikes' beautiful work
"How to scrape skies"



Americans? Frequently ;}



Cheers,
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Boy, you are out to get me! Did I do something wrong to you?

 
Old 03-25-2010, 04:55 PM   #1569
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Americans? Frequently ;}
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Boy, you are out to get me! Did I do something wrong to you?
Now now, let's not start a flamewar and guarantee this thread's death...

Last edited by MrCode; 03-25-2010 at 04:56 PM.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 04:55 PM   #1570
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Boy, you are out to get me! Did I do something wrong to you?

Out to get you? =)

Nuh.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 04:58 PM   #1571
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Only me and BrianL are allowed to speak actual English. Especially since we're both North Westerners. The rest of speak some sort of strange language that sounds like, but isn't, English. I like to call it "foreign".

*ducks*
 
Old 03-25-2010, 05:11 PM   #1572
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What am i doing now? Looking at a mildly amusing Firefox bug.
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Old 03-25-2010, 05:15 PM   #1573
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Looking at a mildly amusing Firefox bug.
That's...odd.

What version of Firefox are you using? Is that always there, or only when you reach that point in the page?
 
Old 03-25-2010, 05:16 PM   #1574
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Only did it today.
And its on every point on every tab.
 
Old 03-25-2010, 05:32 PM   #1575
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@ leopard - re your research re English speaking:

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Perhaps you may not realize that the United States is the #1 English speaking country in the world?
I would warn you that this may not be entirely true. My son who went out to China for 3 months a couple of years ago, to teach English advised that in the school he taught at he had 5 classes a day of 2000 students for each class. He reckoned that there are over 600 million Chinese learning English at any one time. That's got to be more than the USA.

@ XavierP - Since when has Kent been in the North West???? When in the IOM I am closer to Lancashire than I am to Kent when I'm in the IOW.
 
  


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